Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-10
COLLEGE EXPENSES.
What 1t Costs Young Man to Spend
Year at Yale University.

What 1t Costs Young Man to Spend a
Year at Yale University.
At the most democratic college in the
| country (the adjective, of course, not
being used in party sense) and an in
stitution where money counts little in
the social status of the r-graduate,
the official estimate of the expenses of
students given in the new Yale Uni
versity catalogue will command wide
perusal. The estimates cover thirty
seven weeks of the year, the period
when the college is actually in session,
and are graded as follows: Lowest es-
innate of the ordinary college expenses,
1888 for the thirty-seven weeks; general
average, $3.50; and every liberal"
$3.50. These figures omit charge for
clothing, and are necessarily mere ap-
proximations, but they will impress
most of the Yale graduates as substan-
TALLY correct.
Of course there are striking exeep-
tons to the figures printed above: We
remember one case of a student who
went through one year at Yale on
about 800. But he lived on scale
little above abject poverty. He had a
single suit of clothes, and few crackers
with quarter of pound of cheese
bought at a grocery, were his ordinary
meal. He had also his tuition fees re-
nitted, and we believe got his college
room free. Another Yale graduate we
recall who has since risen to post
more lucrative and responsible than,
perhaps, any of his college mates in
the same class. He began his Fresh
man year with just five dollars in his
pocket and worked his way through
without mourning single per-
what the usual result is in the
case of these poor students. They
90 to college to make the most of an
opportunity and they almost invariably
do so. To the special and peculiar
honor of Yale, be. it said, these academic
heroes never lose at college their social
equality, because theircoats are thread
bare and their dollars few. The moral
leader of one of the, largest recent
classes at Yale was one who thus
earned his way to a diploma-and he
wasn't man of brilliant intellectual
faculties either.
The estimate for the college year of
$3.50 Excluding clothing), which the
Yale authorities, describe as Every
LIBERAL" is, if any thing, too liberal
Including clothing, it would imply coll
lege expenses of say $1,000 for the
thirty-seven weeks, and not less than
81, 400 or $1,000 for the whole year, in
Guiding vacations. Not many young men
can spend $1,000 at Yale or any other
college in nine months, without passing
the limit of their own good. A few,
who accumulate libraries, or in other
ways indulge intellectual luxuries, may
spend even more with positive benefit,
but the cases are very exceptional AS
for those whose parents allow them
$1,000. $4,000, and even $1,000 year,
they are generally the men VINO not
merely injure themselves, but the coll
lege. Their extravaganza is fatal to-
good habits: and their example most
pernicious to their classmates, in Gre
ating false standards of manhood, and
low, not to say vile, ideas of college
aims and college pleasures. Foxtu-
nately. they do not often graduate.
The weed f1ourishes for a while, but
when it becomes too luxuriant, along
comes a Yale gardener and plucks
the gaudy plant up by its shallow roots.
-Neso HaUen Ne,os.